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图案

tú àn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 圖案

图案 (tú àn) means "design; pattern". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 图案 means

1. design; pattern

The characters in 图案

• 图túdiagram; picture; drawing
• 案àn(legal) case; incident; record

Example sentences

• 我注意到一个图案。
  Wǒ zhùyì dào yī gè tú'àn.
  I noticed a pattern.
• 墨汁用作染料时会产生有趣的图案。
  Mòzhī yòngzuò rǎnliào shí huì chǎnshēng yǒuqù de tú'àn.
  India ink produces an interesting pattern when used as a dye.
• 到了四十年代，旗袍有了种类繁多的图案和面料，也有了同样种类繁多的饰品。
  Dào le sìshí niándài, qípáo yǒule zhǒnglèi fánduō de tú'àn huómiàn liào, yě yǒule tóngyàng zhǒnglèi fánduō de shìpǐn.
  By the 1940s, the qipao came in a wide variety of designs and fabrics, with an equally wide variety of accessories.
• 这女孩的眼睛闪烁着光亮, 这个暗示让她可爱的猫图案自动铅笔越过了她的笔记本。
  Zhè nǚhái de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe guāngliàng, zhège ànshì ràng tā kě'ài de māo tú'àn zìdòngqiānbǐ yuèguò le tā de bǐjìběn.
  The girl, her eyes shining brightly from that single hint, makes her cute cat-motif automatic pencil run across her notebook.
• 叶公子名叫高，十分喜爱龙，衣带钩上雕着龙，酒器上刻着龙，居室内的花纹图案也全都画着龙。天上的真龙听说这件事，便降临到人间，头探进窗户里，尾巴拖在厅堂中。叶公看见真龙，转身惊慌逃开，吓得魂飞魄散，脸色大变。由此可见，叶公并不是真的喜爱龙，他喜爱的只是那些像龙却并非真龙的东西。
  Lord Ye, whose given name was Gao, was extremely fond of dragons. Dragons were carved on his belt hooks and wine vessels, and all the patterns in his dwelling were painted with dragons. When the real dragon in heaven heard of this, it descended to the mortal world. It poked its head through the window and trailed its tail across the hall. At the sight of the creature, Lord Ye spun around and fled in terror. He was utterly panic-stricken and turned pale with fright. This shows that Lord Ye did not truly love dragons. What he adored was merely things that looked like dragons, not real ones.

Where 图案 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tǒng–tǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tú àn correctly.
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